Posts in category Faith

Day By Day, Again.

Mar08
2013 Rob Written by Rob

Every so often – not so much these days as it used to be – I find myself talking to someone just on the starting end of self-employment. Newbies are always cute. You see the younger version of yourself. They say and ask all the same things you used to say, and much of it boils down to a single question: how long before I can stop worrying about the day-to-day stuff?

And the answer, of course, is you never can. Stability is temporary, fleeting and often illusory. Clients go. Projects change. Checks arrive when they arrive. The bills relentlessly show up in a steady flood. Often everything doesn’t perfectly line up. And sometimes you have to think fast.

We had a moment like that this week.
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Posted in Everyday Life, Work

On Care and Feeding of White Whales

Jan25
2013 Rob Written by Rob

So for the last twenty years or so I’ve been reading a book. I started reading it somewhere around 1994, and have yet to finish it. It’s my white whale. One of them, anyway.

The book is Magister Ludi, by Hermann Hesse. It has barely a plot, is basically four hundred pages of prewar German existentialism, and I’ve never managed to get beyond about half of it. Every couple of years I take another swing at it, figuring that eventually I’ll either plow through and be free of it, or finally get the more sublime underlying message that scored it a Nobel in 1946. And every time I get about a hundred pages in and get distracted by some other book and back on the shelf it goes.

Been doing this now for almost half of my life, and now I’m doing it again.
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Posted in Making Good Art, Work

Waiting

Sep27
2012 Kristi Written by Kristi

So break my step and relent
You forgave and I won’t forget
Know what we’ve seen and him with less
Now in some way shake the excess
But I will wait, I will wait for you.

Sometimes.. sometimes there is a song that reaches into exactly how I’ve been feeling and shakes me.  I hit repeat and let it wash over my thoughts.

But I’ll kneel down, wait for now
I’ll kneel down, know my ground
Raise my hands, paint my spirit gold
And bow my head, keep my heart slow

The last 5 weeks have been a lesson in waiting and being bold.  It’s terrifying and comforting at the same time.  I have no idea how to make sense of it with words.  But there it is.  I’ve been frustrated, relieved, incredulous, annoyed and just plain confused.  But I will keep waiting for the answers to come because I know they will.  I don’t pretend to know the way forward; in fact, all I’ve said for the last month is that I don’t know what comes next.  But there is no rushing past God, no manufactured crisis or manipulation that can out-maneuver what He has planned.

So for now, we wait.

So I’ll be bold, as well as strong
And use my head alongside my heart.
So take my flesh and fix my eyes
That tethered mind free from the lies.

Mind Over Matter and Magical Elves

Aug07
2012 Rob Written by Rob

Faith’s an interesting animal. It can lead you to do some pretty stupid things, can inspire you to accomplish some pretty amazing things, and just get you through some pretty crappy things. Some believe it moves mountains. Others argue that it only really distracts, deludes and makes money for the dishonest. I dunno – when people manage to ship the equivalent of a Buick through 352 million miles of bitter cold, radioactive emptiness to perfectly land, via rocket-powered hovering skycrane, exactly when, where and how they planned with spectacular precision, I think it’s fair not to shitcan the faith concept altogether.

But then you got morons who walk on fire and get themselves burnt. And who later, while suffering serious burns, insist that their failure was that they weren’t in “peak state”. I’m sure basic thermodynamics played a role as well, but whatever.

Obviously one breed of faith gets better results than the other.
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